St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-01
Some of the Divisionists Want An
Opportunity to Play the ssKansas
Martyrs Role.
The New Prohibition Club of Huron
VIII Aim at the Suppression of
Several Vices.
Special to the Globe.

BISMARCK. Dec. 31.-The territorial
legislature convenes here Jan. ID, and there
Is good deal Of fiuttering and gathering Of
stores in anticipation. AS this city is a
somewhat sequestered municipality of some
5000 souls and several hundred miles from
anywhere or anybody except Sitting Bull
and his dusky people, the meeting of the
legislature is looked forward to with per-
hapS more interest than the session of con-
gress at the national capital. 1t is the
event for which all other events are made.
The coming session will possess more
than average interest and Importance
tor several reasons. There has been a re-
markable shaking up of things in the terri
tory since the last legislature. Nearly all
the old Stagers-the schemers and manipu-
IatorS who have given the legislative de-
partment unSavory repute among the peo-
ple-have been left at home. and the third
house will have little of lucrative promise
TO enlist It's energies, as congress has cut off
all special legislation in the territories.
Inc heavy work of the session will be the
enactment OF general laws covering all the
cases for which special bills have been had
heretofore. This will involve conflicts of
Interests and views, but little of a sensa-
tlonal character. 1t fact, there will appar-
emily be little of that
ABsURDLY SECTIONAL FEELING
which two years ago was carried into social
relations. There will be no serious or or
gained effor. to remove the capital-that
by consent remaining in allegiance until the
questions of division and statehood are set
tied. There may be some sort of attempt
To recognize the Huron state as the offspring
OF the convention for which $40, 900 was
appropriated by the last legislature, but no
bad blood is likely to come to the surface
The questions that will stir the most feeling
among localities, like the removal of the
court from Yankton to Mitchell, will not
divide on the 10th parallel. This session
and the new railroads will go far toward
obliterating that line. The measure of
chief interest to the producing interests will
be that for the regulation of railroads
and warehouses. The Collins bill
full synopsis of which has been given in
the GLOBE, meets with such general ap-
proval by the press that it may be taken to
substantially cover the ground contempla-
ted. The task is somewhat delicate and
difficult to meet the demands of the farm
erS and wheat growers, in whose interest
the Legislature was specially elected, and at
the same time encourage the building Of
railroads. Nearly every section of the ter
ritory has new roads in prospect 1t is eX-
pected that the coming year will be the
great railroad year in the history OF the ter
rtory, and none want to
CHECK OR HAMPER
this development At the same time il is
believed that the great lines have ex-
trayagant rates in the territory and fail to
subserve the interests of the people in other
respects as they should. The legislation on
this subject will be cautious and conserva-
tive. Much will be said in the press and
legislative halls about the benefit the roads
have been i'll developing the country, which
is automatic, but the roads are not built on
merely benevolent principles. They only
go where the development of the country
will bring them profitable business, and
if there are beneficiary relations
they should be mutual. There is more
danger Of consolidating legislation of all
pith and beneficial force in this relation
than going too far. Roads are being built
freely i'll Illinois and other states that have
more stringent legislation than that pro-
posed in Dakota. There are hundreds of
bills OF more or less Importance proposed.
No doubt every member will go to Bis
marck with package of bills, few of which
will get into the statute book. The North
Dakota Methodist conference has drafted
bill
IN REGARD TO MARRIAGE,
requiring license from the probate Judge,
no person but magistrate or ordained min
lister to perform the ceremony, with other
details. A measure to restrict the divorce
business is also proposed. A revision of
the school laws is needed. and it is said the
superintendent will indicate such changes
as he deems desirable. His report makes
splendid showing for the territory in the
development of the school interests. The
usual attempt will be made to reduce the
exemptions in the law, but the Farmers al
lance the other day resolved against change
in that direction, and there will be none.
A strong effort will be made to substitute
salaries for fees in the payment of terrific
rial and county officials. AS this will save
good many thousand dollars to the people
that now go into swollen official pockets.
there will be strong opposition to the
change. Au attempt to assume debts con-
tracted by the capital commission, or to
appropriate money for the completion of
the capitol. will evolve much friction and
revive slumbering prcjudices. The session
is limited to sixty days, and it will take re-
markable industry to dispatch the needful
business in that time and provide for the
public institutions. 1t ought to be emphat-
icallV a working session.